Installing¶
Avocado is primarily written in Python, so a standard Python installation is possible and often preferable. You can also install from your distro repository, if available.
Note
Please note that this installs the Avocado core functionality. Many Avocado features are distributed as non-core plugins. Visit the Avocado Plugin section on the left menu.
Tip
If you are looking for Virtualization specific testing, also consider looking at Avocado-VT installation instructions after finishing the Avocado installation.
Installing from PyPI¶
The simplest installation method is through pip
. On most POSIX systems
with Python 3.4 (or later) and pip
available, installation can be performed
with a single command:
$ pip3 install --user avocado-framework
This will fetch the Avocado package (and possibly some of its dependecies) from
the PyPI repository, and will attempt to install it in the user’s home
directory (usually under ~/.local
).
Tip
If you want to perform a system-wide installation, drop the --user
switch.
If you want even more isolation, Avocado can also be installed in a Python virtual environment. with no additional steps besides creating and activating the “venv” itself:
$ python3 -m venv /path/to/new/virtual_environment
$ source /path/to/new/virtual_environment/bin/activate
$ pip3 install avocado-framework
Installing from packages¶
Fedora¶
Avocado is available in stock Fedora 24 and later. The main package name is
python-avocado
, and can be installed with:
$ dnf install python-avocado
Fedora from Avocado’s own Repo¶
The Avocado project also makes the latest release, and the LTS (Long Term Stability) releases available from its own package repository. To use it, first get the package repositories configuration file by running the following command:
$ sudo curl https://avocado-project.org/data/repos/avocado-fedora.repo -o /etc/yum.repos.d/avocado.repo
Now check if you have the avocado
and avocado-lts
repositories
configured by running:
$ sudo dnf repolist avocado avocado-lts
...
repo id repo name status
avocado Avocado 50
avocado-lts Avocado LTS (Long Term Stability) disabled
Regular users of Avocado will want to use the standard avocado
repository,
which tracks the latest Avocado releases. For more information about the LTS
releases, please refer to RFC: Long Term Stability and to your package
management docs on how to switch to the avocado-lts
repo.
Finally, after deciding between regular Avocado releases or LTS, you can install the RPM packages by running the following commands:
$ dnf install python-avocado
Enterprise Linux¶
Avocado packages for Enterprise Linux are available from the Avocado project RPM repository. Additionally, some packages from the EPEL repo are necessary, so you need to enable it first. For EL7, running the following command should do it:
$ yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
Then you must use the Avocado project RHEL repository. Running the following command should give you the basic Avocado installation ready:
$ curl https://avocado-project.org/data/repos/avocado-el.repo -o /etc/yum.repos.d/avocado.repo
$ yum install python-avocado
The LTS (Long Term Stability) repositories are also available for Enterprise
Linux. Please refer to RFC: Long Term Stability and to your package
management docs on how to switch to the avocado-lts
repo.
Latest Development RPM Packages from COPR¶
Avocado provides a repository of continuously built packages from the GitHub repository’s master branch. These packages are currently available for EL7, Fedora 28 and Fedora 29, for both x86_64 and ppc64le.
If you’re interested in using the very latest development version of Avocado from RPM packages, you can do so by running:
$ dnf copr enable @avocado/avocado-latest
$ dnf install python*-avocado*
The following image shows the status of the Avocado packages building on COPR:
OpenSUSE¶
The OpenSUSE project packages LTS versions of Avocado. You can install packages by running the following commands:
$ sudo zypper install avocado
Debian¶
DEB package support is available in the source tree (look at the
contrib/packages/debian
directory. No actual packages are provided by the
Avocado project or the Debian repos.
Installing from source code¶
First make sure you have a basic set of packages installed. The following applies to Fedora based distributions, please adapt to your platform:
$ sudo dnf install -y python3 git gcc python3-devel python3-pip libvirt-devel libffi-devel openssl-devel libyaml-devel redhat-rpm-config xz-devel
Then to install Avocado from the git repository run:
$ git clone git://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado.git
$ cd avocado
$ sudo make requirements
$ sudo python3 setup.py install